Descripción del proyecto
Catalizar el cambio en la fotosíntesis artificial
A medida que el mundo busca formas sostenibles de satisfacer la demanda energética en aumento para alimentar una economía global creciente, la fotosíntesis artificial biomimética se presenta como una oportunidad esperanzadora. Las plantas y otros organismos transforman la energía luminosa en energía química a través de la conversión de agua, CO2 y minerales en oxígeno y compuestos orgánicos ricos en energía. Los dispositivos fotoelectroquímicos pueden desempeñar una función importante en la producción de combustible solar neutro en carbono a través de la fotosíntesis artificial. Los polímeros porosos conjugados (CPP, por sus siglas en inglés) son una clase prometedora de fotocatalizadores con durabilidad estructural, inocuos y de bajo coste. El proyecto NanoCPPs, financiado con fondos europeos, está desarrollando un proceso sintético novedoso para nanopartículas basado en CPP para usar en películas delgadas, que salva los obstáculos actuales y permite ajustar y controlar las propiedades de los CPP. El proyecto tiene previsto preparar el camino para su comercialización con un plan de transferencia de conocimientos.
Objetivo
The world energy demand is continuously growing due to the increase of population. This has triggered the need of new technologies that allow the sustainability of the planet. In this sense, the search of novel materials that can be introduced in these new technological approaches is mandatory.
In NanoCPPs project, the design, synthesis and scale up of nanoparticles based on Conjugated Porous Polymers (CPPs) will be performed. Advanced techniques will be applied to obtain processable CPPs as colloidal solutions in the multi-gram scale as precursors to prepare thin films. These conductive polymer thin films will be used in photoelectrochemical devices for artificial photosynthesis processes, including hydrogen production from water and CO2 reduction. NanoCPPs will address the two main drawbacks inherent to the CPPs synthetic process currently used. Firstly, the particle size control will be improved, which allows to tune the photo(electro)physical properties, in the same way as it happens with nanoparticles based on inorganic semiconductors. Secondly, NanoCPPs will also advance towards the formulation of optimum colloidal solutions of nanostructured CPPs that offers new opportunities to their processability, which is an outstanding issue for this kind of materials.
The knowledge transfer plan will be based on a vendor IP strategy, in which target companies will be preferentially those dedicated to polymers manufacturing for advance applications and those dedicated to electrodes production at large scale. With this aim, a market and IP assessment as well as a pre-technology study will be performed in order to transfer NanoCPPs new technology to the market”.
Ámbito científico
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydrogen energy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-POC-LS - ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum PilotInstitución de acogida
28935 Mostoles Madrid
España